Pre-Crime

Art: Apple Gatherers, Camille Pissaro, 1891My fifth grade teacher, Mr. Stains, had a big energy about him. He imparted two American cultural norms upon me. First, he taught me about the religion of American football. (If you’re also interested in learning more, I recommend Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk.)  …

Two men have been found guilty of “intentionally encouraging consumers ” to watch films and sports illegally through so-called ‘Kodi boxes’ that they were selling. Back in July 2017, an undercover team from Hertfordshire Trading Standards caught Thomas Tewelde and Mohamed Abdou selling “black box tv” devices at Bovingdon Market in…

Senior Emily Cardona and her teacher Megan Pap, center, confer on a classroom project using data on teenage depression in the Introduction to Data Science class at Renaissance High School for the Arts in Long Beach, Calif. —Patrick T. Fallon for Education Week Data science classes are popping up in…

Policing a population is expensive. Law enforcement departments around the globe have long sought a way to tamp down costs or, more often, find better forms of supplemental revenue. Unfortunately, sending the SWAT team on a raid or hiring additional officers to patrol the highway for speeders costs money. But…

Theres widespread concern that video cameras will use facial recognition software to track our every public move. Far less remarked upon but every bit as alarming is the exponential expansion of smart video surveillance networks. Private businesses and hom…

On Monday, the Intercept published a classified internal NSA document noting that Russian military intelligence mounted an operation to hack at least one US voting software supplier—which provided software related to voter registration files—in the months prior to last year’s presidential contest. It has previously been reported that Russia attempted…

Thursday, March 15, 2007 3:01 PM Chalk Media Corp. (TSX-V: CKM) and Sympatico / MSN today announce a Strategic Alliance whereby Chalk will produce an exclusive program for Sympatico.MSN.ca. "Connected Life," hosted by technology subject matter expert Dave Chalk, will educate people about cutting-edge technologies and consumer electronics products. The…